Promoting Interactive Discourse Online

This event is for instructors at the School of Visual Arts.

Rich class discourse is fundamental in creating a community of learners in the classroom. SVA provides a number of online tools to continue classroom discourse outside of the (physical or virtual) classroom. Canvas Discussions provides a forum space for students to share thoughts and outside sources on a varying array of topics. Miro is an easily accessible online whiteboard, which many SVA instructors already use for concept-mapping, mood-boarding, collaboration, critiquing. VoiceThread provides a space to create and work through group critiques and to record critiques for students to review outside of class.

In this workshop we'll discuss the pedagogical benefits of implementing a shared digital space where students can discuss their work and the work of others, and we’ll discuss the advantages of supporting asynchronous communication in remote and face-to-face learning environments.